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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SCOOP, n.
1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle fastened to a dish, used for dipping liquors; also, a little hollow piece of wood for bailing boats.
2. An instrument of surgery.
3. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
SCOOP, v.t.
1. To lade out; properly, to take out with a scoop or with a sweeping motion.
He scoop'd the water from the crystal flood.
2. To empty by lading; as, he scooped it dry.
3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; as, the Indians scoop the trunk of a tree into a canoe.
Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint.
4. To remove, so as to leave a place hollow.
A spectator would think this circular mount had been actually scooped out of that hollow space.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the quantity a scoop will hold [syn: scoop, scoopful]
2: a hollow concave shape made by removing something [syn: scoop, pocket]
3: a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials" [syn: exclusive, scoop]
4: street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate [syn: soap, scoop, max, liquid ecstasy, grievous bodily harm, goop, Georgia home boy, easy lay]
5: the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe [syn: scoop, scoop shovel]
6: a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream" v
1: take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container" [syn: scoop, scoop out, lift out, scoop up, take up]
2: get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" [syn: outdo, outflank, trump, best, scoop]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English scope, from Middle Dutch schope; akin to Old High German skepfen to shape — more at shape Date: 14th century 1. a. a large ladle b. a deep shovel or similar implement for digging, dipping, or shoveling c. a usually hemispherical utensil for dipping food d. a small spoon-shaped utensil or instrument for cutting or gouging 2. a. the action of scooping b. the amount contained by a scoop 3. a. a hollow place ; cavity b. a part forming or surrounding an opening for channeling a fluid (as air) into a desired path 4. a. information especially of immediate interest b. beat 5b 5. a rounded and usually low-cut neckline on a woman's garment — called also scoop neck • scoopful noun II. transitive verb Date: 14th century 1. a. to take out or up with or as if with a scoop ; dip b. to pick up quickly or surreptitiously with or as if with a sweep of the hand — often used with up <scoop up the treat> 2. to empty by ladling out the contents 3. to make hollow ; dig out 4. beat 5a(2) <scooped the rival newspaper> • scoopable adjective • scooper noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 any of various objects resembling a spoon, esp.: a a short-handled deep shovel used for transferring grain, sugar, coal, coins, etc. b a large long-handled ladle used for transferring liquids. c the excavating part of a digging-machine etc. d Med. a long-handled spoonlike instrument used for scraping parts of the body etc. e an instrument used for serving portions of mashed potato, ice-cream, etc. 2 a quantity taken up by a scoop. 3 a movement of or resembling scooping. 4 a piece of news published by a newspaper etc. in advance of its rivals. 5 a large profit made quickly or by anticipating one's competitors. 6 Mus. a singer's exaggerated portamento. 7 a scooped-out hollow etc. --v.tr. 1 (usu. foll. by out) hollow out with or as if with a scoop. 2 (usu. foll. by up) lift with or as if with a scoop. 3 forestall (a rival newspaper, reporter, etc.) with a scoop. 4 secure (a large profit etc.) esp. suddenly. Phrases and idioms: scoop-neck the rounded low-cut neck of a garment. scoop-net a net used for sweeping a river bottom, or for catching bait. Derivatives: scooper n. scoopful n. (pl. -fuls). Etymology: ME f. MDu., MLG schope bucket etc., rel. to SHAPE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Scoop Scoop, n. [OE. scope, of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. skopa, akin to D. schop a shovel, G. sch["u]ppe, and also to E. shove. See Shovel.] 1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats. 2. A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine. 3. (Surg.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies. 4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow. Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. --J. R. Drake. 5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop. 6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling. Scoop net, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river. Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Scoop Scoop, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scooped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scooping.] [OE. scopen. See Scoop, n.] 1. To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out. He scooped the water from the crystal flood. --Dryden. 2. To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry. 3. To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation. Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint. --Arbuthnot.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Scoop Scoop, n. A beat. [Newspaper Slang]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Scoop Scoop, v. t. To get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival). [Newspaper Slang]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(scoops, scooping, scooped) 1. If you scoop a person or thing somewhere, you put your hands or arms under or round them and quickly move them there. Michael knelt next to her and scooped her into his arms. VERB: V n prep/adv 2. If you scoop something from a container, you remove it with something such as a spoon. ...the sound of a spoon scooping dog food out of a can. VERB: V n prep/adv 3. A scoop is an object like a spoon which is used for picking up a quantity of a food such as ice cream or an ingredient such as flour. ...a small ice-cream scoop. N-COUNT 4. You can use scoop to refer to an exciting news story which is reported in one newspaper or on one television programme before it appears anywhere else. ...one of the biggest scoops in the history of newspapers. N-COUNT 5. If a newspaper scoops other newspapers, it succeeds in printing an exciting or important story before they do. All the newspapers really want to do is scoop the opposition. VERB: V n 6. If you scoop a prize or award, you win it. (JOURNALISM) ...films which scooped awards around the world. VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Empty with a scoop. 2. Lade out. 3. Excavate, hollow out, dig out. 4. Remove, leave hollow.

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